<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:psc="http://podlove.org/simple-chapters" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Ep. 4]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bad Decisions and Good Mascara is about the beatifully messy reality of being a woman-the choices we make again, the ones we definitely wouldn't make and everything we learned in between.  </p><p></p><p>We're talking relationships, marriage, motherhood, friendship, aging, confidence, starting over, and those moments when life looks nothing like we thought it would. </p><p></p><p>Some conversations are funny, some are brutally relatable, and some might make you wonder, "Wait...... did we all do that?"  No pretending we have it all figured out.  No perfect lives.Just moment telling the truth, laughing at the chaos, and realizing that getting older doesn't mean becoming invisible-it ,means finally becoming comfortabe to be enoug to yourself.  </p><p></p><p>Becasue we may have made a few questionable decisions along the waqy....but at least the mascara was good!</p>]]></description><link>https://riverside.com</link><generator>Riverside.fm (https://riverside.com)</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:58:47 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://api.riverside.com/hosting/vRwc4ZqC.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><author><![CDATA[Kim]]></author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:37:15 GMT</pubDate><copyright><![CDATA[2026 Kim]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><ttl>60</ttl><category><![CDATA[Society & Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category><itunes:author>Kim</itunes:author><itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Bad Decisions and Good Mascara is about the beatifully messy reality of being a woman-the choices we make again, the ones we definitely wouldn&apos;t make and everything we learned in between.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&apos;re talking relationships, marriage, motherhood, friendship, aging, confidence, starting over, and those moments when life looks nothing like we thought it would. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some conversations are funny, some are brutally relatable, and some might make you wonder, &quot;Wait...... did we all do that?&quot;  No pretending we have it all figured out.  No perfect lives.Just moment telling the truth, laughing at the chaos, and realizing that getting older doesn&apos;t mean becoming invisible-it ,means finally becoming comfortabe to be enoug to yourself.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Becasue we may have made a few questionable decisions along the waqy....but at least the mascara was good!&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Kim</itunes:name><itunes:email>grlzrul68@yahoo.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture"/><itunes:category text="Comedy"/><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/15eea057-c23e-4c67-8ce2-08295b60534a/logos/bbb8f258-4c64-4673-9701-b7f48d596398.jpeg"/><item><title><![CDATA[Ep 9]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Halloween</p>]]></description><guid 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url="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/15eea057-c23e-4c67-8ce2-08295b60534a/episodes/eb79d213-4dc8-4afd-b050-62ae241e429e/transcripts.txt" type="text/plain"/><itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Bad Decisions and Good Mascara&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:00:53</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/15eea057-c23e-4c67-8ce2-08295b60534a/logos/bbb8f258-4c64-4673-9701-b7f48d596398.jpeg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode><itunes:title>Ep 9</itunes:title><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preparing for the Unexpected]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bad Decisions and Good Mascara</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">f8d7aa2e-6d72-4a50-9c90-298084ac0843</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:41:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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and wildly complicated, changing bodies, shifting friendships, marriage, motherhood, confidence, regret, reinvention—and all the messy stuff nobody warned us about.<br /><br />It’s honest conversations, questionable choices, hard-earned wisdom, plenty of laughter, and the occasional “What the hell was I thinking?” moment.<br /><br />Because getting older doesn’t mean becoming invisible, boring, or finished. We’re still figuring it out, still making mistakes, still changing our minds—and sometimes the best we can do is laugh about it, put on some good mascara, and keep going.<br /><br /><b>Bad Decisions and Good Mascara — because life gets messy, but your lashes don’t have to.</b></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">decefca8-a49b-4b30-8c2c-532441a56e21</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:57:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/7816c327c650266dcce2a36e0d6a3f1f1edda8ccd6d46ee8b17664e334cd7297/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJkZWNlZmNhOC1hNDliLTRiMzAtOGMyYy01MzI0NDFhNTZlMjEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIxNWVlYTA1Ny1jMjNlLTRjNjctOGNlMi0wODI5NWI2MDUzNGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTQ1MGJkOTE0MzY4NWRiZjRhM2YyYzUiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmFhMDgyODQ3ZTgxNzlmY2U2NGUxY2VjL2tpbXMtc3R1ZGlvLW1pZHFnLTIwMjYtOS04X18yMS00Ny00OC5tcDMifQ==.mp3" length="65213483" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/15eea057-c23e-4c67-8ce2-08295b60534a/episodes/decefca8-a49b-4b30-8c2c-532441a56e21/transcripts.txt" type="text/plain"/><itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;A podcast for women who’ve lived long enough to know better—but also know that knowing better doesn’t always stop us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’re talking about aging in a world obsessed with staying young, raising kids who somehow grow up before we’re ready, relationships that can be wonderful and wildly complicated, changing bodies, shifting friendships, marriage, motherhood, confidence, regret, reinvention—and all the messy stuff nobody warned us about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s honest conversations, questionable choices, hard-earned wisdom, plenty of laughter, and the occasional “What the hell was I thinking?” moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because getting older doesn’t mean becoming invisible, boring, or finished. We’re still figuring it out, still making mistakes, still changing our minds—and sometimes the best we can do is laugh about it, put on some good mascara, and keep going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bad Decisions and Good Mascara — because life gets messy, but your lashes don’t have to.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:33:58</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/15eea057-c23e-4c67-8ce2-08295b60534a/logos/bbb8f258-4c64-4673-9701-b7f48d596398.jpeg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode><itunes:title>Episode 6</itunes:title><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[Episode 5]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>A podcast for women who’ve lived long enough to know better—but also know that knowing better doesn’t always stop us.</p><p>We’re talking about aging in a world obsessed with staying young, raising kids who somehow grow up before we’re ready, relationships that can be wonderful and wildly complicated, changing bodies, shifting friendships, marriage, motherhood, confidence, regret, reinvention—and all the messy stuff nobody warned us about.</p><p>It’s honest conversations, questionable choices, hard-earned wisdom, plenty of laughter, and the occasional “What the hell was I thinking?” moment.</p><p>Because getting older doesn’t mean becoming invisible, boring, or finished. We’re still figuring it out, still making mistakes, still changing our minds—and sometimes the best we can do is laugh about it, put on some good mascara, and keep going.</p><p><b>Bad Decisions and Good Mascara — because life gets messy, but your lashes don’t have to.</b></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">23e75465-42b8-4f72-8a5d-e53146398283</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:10:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/3c61fee8e4a4c51345b3adede2eb0dbedeb4840944c5a96ebb9c23455e32715c/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIyM2U3NTQ2NS00MmI4LTRmNzItOGE1ZC1lNTMxNDYzOTgyODMiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIxNWVlYTA1Ny1jMjNlLTRjNjctOGNlMi0wODI5NWI2MDUzNGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTQ1MGJkOTE0MzY4NWRiZjRhM2YyYzUiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE4ZWVlN2Q4Mzk5MDE4NThhNzI1ZmQ3L2tpbXMtc3R1ZGlvLW1pZHFnLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtOC0yNl9fMTUtNDctNDAubXAzIn0=.mp3" length="55881290" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/15eea057-c23e-4c67-8ce2-08295b60534a/episodes/23e75465-42b8-4f72-8a5d-e53146398283/transcripts.txt" type="text/plain"/><itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;A podcast for women who’ve lived long enough to know better—but also know that knowing better doesn’t always stop us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We’re talking about aging in a world obsessed with staying young, raising kids who somehow grow up before we’re ready, relationships that can be wonderful and wildly complicated, changing bodies, shifting friendships, marriage, motherhood, confidence, regret, reinvention—and all the messy stuff nobody warned us about.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s honest conversations, questionable choices, hard-earned wisdom, plenty of laughter, and the occasional “What the hell was I thinking?” moment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because getting older doesn’t mean becoming invisible, boring, or finished. We’re still figuring it out, still making mistakes, still changing our minds—and sometimes the best we can do is laugh about it, put on some good mascara, and keep going.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bad Decisions and Good Mascara — because life gets messy, but your lashes don’t have to.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:29:06</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/15eea057-c23e-4c67-8ce2-08295b60534a/logos/bbb8f258-4c64-4673-9701-b7f48d596398.jpeg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode><itunes:title>Episode 5</itunes:title><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[Episode 4]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Bad Decisions and Good Mascara is a candid, funny, and unapologetic podcast about women navigating the beautiful chaos of real life.  From aging bodies and complicated relationships to raising kids, marriage, dating, friendship, ident\ity, and the questionable choices we make along the way, Nothing is off-limits.  It's honest conversations, hard-earned wisdom, plenty of laughs, and a reminder that you can be a little messy and still look damn good doing it!</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">db5a7e04-bf4d-4f2d-b645-3a0efacaef14</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:44:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/611a6decdb9e2afcbb20ab0314614ac90f32b2333f70d13ecdf35b3e7fa00de9/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJkYjVhN2UwNC1iZjRkLTRmMmQtYjY0NS0zYTBlZmFjYWVmMTQiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIxNWVlYTA1Ny1jMjNlLTRjNjctOGNlMi0wODI5NWI2MDUzNGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTQ1MGJkOTE0MzY4NWRiZjRhM2YyYzUiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE4NGZiNTlmNTE3ZDc5NzdhNjE4ZTUzL2tpbXMtc3R1ZGlvLW1pZHFnLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtOC0xOV9fMi0zOS01My5tcDMifQ==.mp3" length="85996086" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/15eea057-c23e-4c67-8ce2-08295b60534a/episodes/db5a7e04-bf4d-4f2d-b645-3a0efacaef14/transcripts.txt" type="text/plain"/><itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Bad Decisions and Good Mascara is a candid, funny, and unapologetic podcast about women navigating the beautiful chaos of real life.  From aging bodies and complicated relationships to raising kids, marriage, dating, friendship, ident\ity, and the questionable choices we make along the way, Nothing is off-limits.  It&apos;s honest conversations, hard-earned wisdom, plenty of laughs, and a reminder that you can be a little messy and still look damn good doing it!&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:44:47</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/15eea057-c23e-4c67-8ce2-08295b60534a/logos/bbb8f258-4c64-4673-9701-b7f48d596398.jpeg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode><itunes:title>Episode 4</itunes:title><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>